George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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.
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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.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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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.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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.
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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There are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
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Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
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I protest against any absolute conclusion.