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From Quotes by George Eliot
- Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of…
- It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
- May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
- Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
- Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of…
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- 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…
- 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…
- We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.…
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
- The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving…
- It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And…
- But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.…
- A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the…
- How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne…
- How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his…
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