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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.
George Eliot -
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
George Eliot
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There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
George Eliot -
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
George Eliot -
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
George Eliot -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
George Eliot -
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
George Eliot -
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
George Eliot
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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot -
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
George Eliot -
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
George Eliot -
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
George Eliot -
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot -
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.
George Eliot
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
George Eliot -
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
George Eliot -
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
George Eliot -
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
George Eliot -
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
George Eliot -
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
George Eliot
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
George Eliot -
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot -
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot -
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot