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George Eliot
Perspective, as its...
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish,...
But human experience...
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...
Of what use,...
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...
Life is measured...
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...
One must be...
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
In spite of...
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...
Harold, like the...
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct...
What makes life...
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Source: Daniel Deronda.
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There is much...
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...
There is a...
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...
Children demand that...
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .
To have in...
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...
For what we...
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...
Prophecy is the...
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...
Our impartiality is...
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
There is no...
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
For character too...
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a...
A supreme love,...
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the...
Certainly, the mistakes...
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...
In the vain...
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Source: Romola, bk....