All George Eliot Quotes
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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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.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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