George Eliot Quotes
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Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
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Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
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Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
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... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.
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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 done away with.
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I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
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Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.
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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 with each other?
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
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A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
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