All George Eliot Quotes
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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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.
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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