George Eliot Quotes
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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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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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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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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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.
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If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.
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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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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . .
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
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I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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 pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.