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Doe Quotes by George Eliot
- Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
- There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
- Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
- If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
- The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
- Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of…
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