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Called Quotes by George Eliot
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light…
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- 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…
- Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -…
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
- The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
- and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
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