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Present Quotes by George Eliot
- It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
- 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…
- I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
- To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
- For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet…
- A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
- If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by…
- In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has…
- With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is…
- If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon