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George Eliot
The responsibility of...
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
Source: In...
There is a...
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our...
Iteration, like friction,...
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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Blessed is the...
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...
Blows are sarcasms...
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
Breed is stronger...
Breed is stronger than pasture.
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-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
It is only...
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...
Our consciousness rarely...
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...
Tis God gives...
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...
I like not...
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...
The scornful nostril...
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...
It seems to...
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...
The poverty of...
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in...
We hand folks...
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Source: Adam Bede, ch....
It is seldom...
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...
Those who trust...
Those who trust us educate us.
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-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
The intense happiness...
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and...
Our deeds determine...
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Source: Adam Bede,...
Excellence encourages one...
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the...
Vanity is as...
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...