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Call Quotes by George Eliot
- 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…
- I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And…
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
- Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination…
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge…
- When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's…
- But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- 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…
- We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
- Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
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