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Often Quotes by George Eliot
- Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
- Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
- 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 a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing…
- Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
- There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
- Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
- The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
- But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions…
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
- If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by…
- It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will…
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