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Way Quotes by George Eliot
- Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
- I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than…
- 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…
- It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born…
- 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…
- But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him…
- One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
- I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider…
- 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…
- 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…
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
- Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the…
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
- It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy…
- In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the…
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