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Our Quotes by George Eliot
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
- Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
- The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own…
- We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
- We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
- For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our…
- The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and…
- When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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