George Eliot Quotes
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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Perhaps the windWails so in winter for the summers dead,And all sad sounds are nature's funeral criesFor what has been and is not.
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It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?