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Lies Quotes by George Eliot
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- 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.
- The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- 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…
- A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it…
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