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Act Quotes by George Eliot
- We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
- We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
- To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called…
- What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet…
- For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
- There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will…
- We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
- ... 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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