George Eliot Quotes
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
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When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
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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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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
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Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
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If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
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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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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
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It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.