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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Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.
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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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When real work happens and that's when real art happens.
