George Eliot Quotes
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
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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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It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger - not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.
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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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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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What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
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If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
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Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?