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Experience Quotes by George Eliot
- Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
- Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!…
- But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
- Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them…
- Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that…
- How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first…
- We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
- My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…
- 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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