George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
[Policy]
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To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
[Home]
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Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
[Vanity]
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We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
[Imagination]
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
[Censure]
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.
[Pride]
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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.
[Motives]
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made up of artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and simple; without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicity awkwardness.
[Manners]
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
[Friendship]
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
[Kindness]
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
[Marriage]
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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
[Opportunity]
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
[Distrust]
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What makes life dreary is want of motive.
[Motivation]
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What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
[Knowledge]
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