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George Eliot Quotes

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We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light  (George Eliot Quotes) What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?  (George Eliot Quotes) It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult  (George Eliot Quotes) One couldn’t carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves  (George Eliot Quotes) Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?  (George Eliot Quotes) When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing  (George Eliot Quotes) Life is like a game of whist. I don’t enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it  (George Eliot Quotes) It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in  (George Eliot Quotes) That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow  (George Eliot Quotes) We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire  (George Eliot Quotes) Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better  (George Eliot Quotes) Don’t seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you’ll set other people watching  (George Eliot Quotes) Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm  (George Eliot Quotes) In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception  (George Eliot Quotes) That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest  (George Eliot Quotes) What is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity  (George Eliot Quotes) Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear  (George Eliot Quotes) A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away  (George Eliot Quotes) The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes  (George Eliot Quotes) 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 so fond of it  (George Eliot Quotes) It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth  (George Eliot Quotes) No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you  (George Eliot Quotes) I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is  (George Eliot Quotes) For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion  (George Eliot Quotes) Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence  (George Eliot Quotes) 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 half so much as you admire yourselves  (George Eliot Quotes) When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his  (George Eliot Quotes) It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view  (George Eliot Quotes) Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope  (George Eliot Quotes) If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment  (George Eliot Quotes)
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