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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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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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
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Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
