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Turns Quotes by George Eliot
- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
- Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
- There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems…
- The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a…
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but…
- 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…
- When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
- For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
- But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
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