George Eliot Quotes
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
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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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I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
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In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
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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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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
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The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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He said within his soul, ''This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again'.
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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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A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
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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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Inclination snatches argumentsTo make indulgence seem judicious choice.