George Eliot Quotes
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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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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Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
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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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For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
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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.
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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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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.
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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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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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... 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.