George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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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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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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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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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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I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
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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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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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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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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
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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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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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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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There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
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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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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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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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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.