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Old Quotes by George Eliot
- What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the…
- How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
- 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:…
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but…
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- 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…
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,…
- This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
- Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
- It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers…
- In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see…
- What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it…
- Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
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