George Eliot Quotes
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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.
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The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched - he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.
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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
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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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But then the need of being loved, the strongest need … in poor Maggie’s nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
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I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.