George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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Only Allah changes the regime.
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
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The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
