George Eliot Quotes
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
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A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
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Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
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Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.