George Eliot Quotes
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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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No farther will I travel: once again My brethren I will see, and that fair plain Where I and song were born. There fresh-voiced youth Will pour my strains with all the early truth Which now abides not in my voice and hands, But only in the soul, the will that stands Helpless to move. My tribe remembering Will cry, ''Tis he!' and run to greet me, welcoming.
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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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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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It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
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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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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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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
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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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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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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
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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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And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
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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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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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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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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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There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.