Eras Quote by George Eliot

“There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.”

George Eliot

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

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“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

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