George Eliot Quotes

But then the need of being loved, the strongest need … in poor Maggie’s nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.

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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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Manchester's got everything except a beach.
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You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.
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But then the need of being loved, the strongest need … in poor Maggie’s nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.