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First Quotes by George Eliot
- That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a…
- Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
- Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite…
- When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's…
- The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
- The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
- Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must…
- 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…
- 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…
- Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock…
- 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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