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Our Own Quotes by George Eliot
- There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a…
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like…
- That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
- 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…
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are…
- 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 powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
- We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent…
- Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our…
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- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
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