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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War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
