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Own Quotes by George Eliot
- 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…
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core…
- Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
- The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
- You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you…
- There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived…
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- 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…
- To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called…
- 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…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- 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…
- Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead…
- The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
- 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…
- Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
- It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them…
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
- Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you…
- If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make…
- How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first…
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