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George Eliot: In the vain...

George Eliot: In the vain...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Source: Romola, bk....

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George Eliot: Is it not...

George Eliot: Is it not...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...

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George Eliot: With memory set...

George Eliot: With memory set...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...

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George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...

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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: Plainness has its...

George Eliot: Plainness has its...

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: It is never...

George Eliot: It is never...

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Source: In The World's Best...

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George Eliot: A mother's yearning...

George Eliot: A mother's yearning...

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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G K Chesterton: The golden age...

G K Chesterton: The golden age...

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Source: In The...

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G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was...

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G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English...

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G K Chesterton: The only way...

G K Chesterton: The only way...

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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G K Chesterton: And Noah he...

G K Chesterton: And Noah he...

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
`I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get...

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William Wordsworth: How fast has...

William Wordsworth: How fast has...

How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!


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William Wordsworth: She seemed a...

William Wordsworth: She seemed a...

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

Source: In The...

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William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...

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William Wordsworth: For Nature then...

William Wordsworth: For Nature then...

For Nature then . . .
To me was all in all.


Source: Lines composed a few miles...

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William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its...

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