George Eliot Quotes
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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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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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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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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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
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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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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.