George Eliot Quotes
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.
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Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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What is better than to love and live with the loved? – But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.