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Little Quotes by George Eliot
- 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…
- It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core…
- How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,…
- To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
- For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…
- But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him…
- You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
- 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…
- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency…
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
- 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…
- We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
- If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
- but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
- In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see…
- Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
- It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
- In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the…
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