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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
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Mr Johnson 'You know what a Tory is – one who wants to drive the working men as he'd drive cattle.'
George Eliot
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'There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.'
George Eliot -
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
George Eliot -
Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.
George Eliot -
Jubal sat lonely, all around was dim, Yet his face glowed with light revealed to him
George Eliot -
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
George Eliot -
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
George Eliot
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I see a face of love, Fair as sweet music when my heart was strong: Yea - art thou come again to me, great Song?' The face bent over him like silver night In long-remembered summers; that calm light Of days which shine in firmaments of thought, That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
George Eliot -
… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
George Eliot -
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
George Eliot -
The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot -
Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.
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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
George Eliot
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.
George Eliot -
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot -
Knightly love is blent with reverenceAs heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
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So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
George Eliot -
One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
George Eliot
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To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
George Eliot -
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
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So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
George Eliot -
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
George Eliot