George Eliot quotes - page 11

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. (George Eliot)
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. View quote
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. View quote
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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. View quote
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. View quote
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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 a hatred of all injury. View quote
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. View quote
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I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. (George Eliot)
Blameless people are always the most exasperating. View quote
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. View quote
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. View quote
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade. View quote
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. View quote
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor. View quote
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. View quote
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. View quote
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. View quote
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. (George Eliot)
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. View quote
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. View quote
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. View quote
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She hates everything that is not what she longs for. View quote
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