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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less...
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of...
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Source: Daniel Deronda,...
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...
The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any...
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our...
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,...
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
Source: George Eliot's Life...