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Moment Quotes by George Eliot
- That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a…
- Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,…
- The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
- If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by…
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
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