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Which Quotes by George Eliot
- But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be…
- 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…
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency…
- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's…
- Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
- The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own…
- Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our…
- Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
- There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and…
- There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
- 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…
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