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Common Quotes by George Eliot
- How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
- Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,…
- There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their…
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall…
More Common Quotes
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- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
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- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
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