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Man Quotes by George Eliot
- A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
- There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
- I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than…
- The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- 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…
- There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil…
- No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
- 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…
- What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I…
- What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
- Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
- No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
- What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.
- To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called…
- 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…
- In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
- 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.…
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
- There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
- I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom…
- 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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