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George Eliot Quotes


"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections...."

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"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be..."

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"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous...."

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"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a..."

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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than..."

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"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no..."

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"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another...."

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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in..."

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"Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid."

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"But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks..."

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"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the..."

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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed..."

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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed..."

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"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And..."

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"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a..."

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad..."

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"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude have roots that can be pulled..."

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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the..."

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"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find..."

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"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of..."

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"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be..."

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"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our..."

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"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause...."

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"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their..."

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"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is..."

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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love..."

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"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...."

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving...."

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"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as..."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution...."

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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...."

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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us..."

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"Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but dress in their small..."

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"Pain is no evil unless it conquers us."

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"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate...."

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"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly...."

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"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a..."

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"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images..."

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"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it..."

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection...."

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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing..."

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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history...."

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"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as..."

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"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice...."

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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments..."

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"Those who trust us educate us."

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"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves...."

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"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in..."

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