George Eliot Quotes
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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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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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?