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Most Quotes by George Eliot
- Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
- Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most…
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
- Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
- The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
- But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
- 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…
- I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster