George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Teach love, for that is what you are.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.