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These bitter sorrows of childhood! When sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless  (George Eliot Quotes) If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon  (George Eliot Quotes) If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out  (George Eliot Quotes) Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?  (George Eliot Quotes) A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink  (George Eliot Quotes) Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come  (George Eliot Quotes) When a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbors to wish him joy  (George Eliot Quotes) The mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man  (George Eliot Quotes) Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use  (George Eliot Quotes) Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it  (George Eliot Quotes) An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow  (George Eliot Quotes) Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it  (George Eliot Quotes) It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority  (George Eliot Quotes) The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, which afterwards subside into cheerful peace  (George Eliot Quotes) A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel  (George Eliot Quotes) The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence  (George Eliot Quotes) The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence  (George Eliot Quotes) O that grave speech would cumber out quick souls, like bells that waste the moments with their loudness  (George Eliot Quotes) What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman’s face? and is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?  (George Eliot Quotes) Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness  (George Eliot Quotes) A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming  (George Eliot Quotes) Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths  (George Eliot Quotes) I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left  (George Eliot Quotes) In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues  (George Eliot Quotes) Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years  (George Eliot Quotes) What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? the text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it; and even his bad grammar is sublime  (George Eliot Quotes) That beneficent harness of routine, which enables silly men to live respectably and happy men to live calmly  (George Eliot Quotes) Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side  (George Eliot Quotes) I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of  (George Eliot Quotes) The world is great; the stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach  (George Eliot Quotes)
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