George Eliot Quotes
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Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there's no knowing - perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
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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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We mortals sometimes cut a pitiable figure in our attempts at display. We may be sure of our own merits, yet fatally ignorant of the point of view from which we are regarded by our neighbour. Our fine patterns in tattooing may be far from throwing him into a swoon of admiration, though we turn ourselves all round to show them.
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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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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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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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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.