All George Eliot Quotes
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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