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Quivering Quotes by George Eliot
- and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…
- 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…
More Quivering Quotes
- The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic… — Adam Sedgwick
- He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand
- Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
- O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering… — Walter Scott