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Facts Quotes by George Eliot
- Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
- One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
- In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense…
- I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
- Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
- Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
- Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while…
- She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
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