George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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.
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All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
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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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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.
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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
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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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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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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
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The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
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A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.