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Them Quotes by George Eliot
- A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
- These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
- 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…
- Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
- The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are…
- The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but…
- Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
- The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
- All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come…
- Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the…
- There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but…
- Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be…
- The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to…
- It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers…
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we…
- The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them…
- 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…
- It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them…
More Them Quotes
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster