All George Eliot Quotes
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
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He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot in
Love
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
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