George Eliot Quotes
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
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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.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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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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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
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We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.