All George Eliot Quotes
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
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