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Off Quotes by George Eliot
- Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
- Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the…
- Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his…
- Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and…
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
- 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…
- Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of…
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