George Eliot Quotes
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Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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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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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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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
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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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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
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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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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.