George Eliot Quotes
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
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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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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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If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.