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Against Quotes by George Eliot
- The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
- It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
- There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
- But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.…
- I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom…
- I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose…
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
- It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
- That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part…
- I protest against any absolute conclusion.
- She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
- But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
- 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…
- In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has…
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