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George Eliot
An election is...
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...
And when a...
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
It is never...
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Source: In The World's Best...
Whether happiness may...
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
It is easy...
It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
Source: In Webster's...
The golden moments...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...
You may try...
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...
It is a...
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his...
I'm proof against...
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...
When death, the...
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...
The law and...
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...
A woman's heart...
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness...
Cruelty, like every...
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires...
My own experience...
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...
Our deeds still...
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
A mother's yearning...
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Every woman is...
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
It will never...
It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
One soweth and...
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Sympathetic people often...
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...