George Eliot Quotes
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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As leopard feels at home with leopard.
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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We cannot reform our forefathers.
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Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
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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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Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
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What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.