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Life Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- 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…
- 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.
- May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
- These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and…
- Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then…
- 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…
- I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And…
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
- A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is…
- Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
- No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
- Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree…
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but…
- 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 had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
- It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is…
- I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
- Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't…
- 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…
- What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our…
- Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will…
- Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
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