All George Eliot Quotes
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
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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.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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