George Eliot Quotes

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

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• It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

  

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• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

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• Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

  

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• Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

  

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• A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

  

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  

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• I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

  

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• People are sheepish when they approach me.

  

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• Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

  

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• Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.

  

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• I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

  

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• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  

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• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

  

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  • Culture
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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  

  George Eliot
  • Demands
  • Temper
  • Organism