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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.: George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.: George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.: George Eliot
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.: George Eliot
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.: George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.: George Eliot
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.: George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot
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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.: George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.: George Eliot
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?: George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.: George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.: George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.: George Eliot, Middlemarch
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.: George Eliot, Middlemarch
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.: George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.: George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.: George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.: George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
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