George Eliot Quotes
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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Trouble's made us kin.
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O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
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Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.