George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.
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The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.
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Anything that exists is possible.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
