George Eliot quotes - page 3

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. (George Eliot)
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. View quote
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. View quote
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High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes. View quote
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. View quote
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. View quote
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. View quote
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. View quote
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowled. View quote
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. View quote
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. (George Eliot)
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. View quote
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. View quote
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There are many victories worse than a defeat. View quote
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. View quote
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. View quote
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
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One can say everything best over a meal. View quote
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. View quote
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. View quote
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. (George Eliot)
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. View quote
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Imagination is a licensed trespasser it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. View quote
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. View quote
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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others. View quote
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