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Makes Quotes by George Eliot
- Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- A good horse makes short miles.
- College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born…
- The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that…
- I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider…
- Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
- Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
- So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
- When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he…
- 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…
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