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George Eliot

Defects
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
3.4 · 59 votes · 123 reads
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Nature
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 only know them when they are gone.
3.3 · 35 votes · 174 reads
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Nature
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
3.3 · 40 votes · 145 reads
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Virtues
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
3.4 · 8 votes · 15 reads
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Various
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
4.6 · 30 votes · 96 reads
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Various
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
5.0 · 13 votes · 95 reads
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Feelings
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
3.9 · 21 votes · 84 reads
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Various
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
3.5 · 7 votes · 174 reads
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Various
The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
3.3 · 15 votes · 7 reads
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Society
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
4.5 · 49 votes · 141 reads
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Time
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
3.4 · 45 votes · 47 reads
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Defects
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
3.7 · 62 votes · 98 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
3.1 · 16 votes · 76 reads
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Feelings
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
3.1 · 40 votes · 63 reads
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Feelings
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
4.3 · 56 votes · 144 reads
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Art and Culture
Those who trust us educate us.
3.0 · 49 votes · 64 reads
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Government and Politics
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
5.0 · 6 votes · 110 reads
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Virtues
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opini
4.0 · 26 votes · 194 reads
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Feelings
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
3.6 · 6 votes · 192 reads
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Time
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
4.8 · 11 votes · 31 reads
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Nature
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
4.7 · 45 votes · 38 reads
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Various
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
4.9 · 49 votes · 64 reads
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Nature
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
3.2 · 35 votes · 157 reads
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Government and Politics
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
5.0 · 44 votes · 92 reads
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Nature
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
4.7 · 22 votes · 96 reads
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Nature
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softnes
3.6 · 47 votes · 2 reads
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Time
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter
3.0 · 57 votes · 33 reads
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Virtues
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
4.8 · 55 votes · 74 reads
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Feelings
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 being a girl.
4.8 · 58 votes · 177 reads
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