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A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
George Eliot -
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
George Eliot
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
George Eliot -
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George Eliot -
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
George Eliot -
I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
George Eliot -
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
George Eliot -
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
George Eliot -
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
George Eliot -
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
George Eliot -
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
George Eliot -
It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
George Eliot -
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
George Eliot -
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
George Eliot -
A good solid bit of work lasts.
George Eliot -
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
George Eliot -
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
George Eliot -
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.
George Eliot
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
George Eliot -
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
George Eliot -
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
George Eliot -
After all, the true seeing is within.
George Eliot