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George Eliot

Art and Culture
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
4.1 · 61 votes · 171 reads
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Thought and Reason
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
4.3 · 64 votes · 89 reads
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Virtues
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
3.8 · 11 votes · 193 reads
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Virtues
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
3.9 · 21 votes · 95 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
4.9 · 20 votes · 15 reads
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Defects
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
3.5 · 45 votes · 7 reads
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Various
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
3.1 · 5 votes · 148 reads
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Various
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
3.4 · 17 votes · 78 reads
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Defects
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
4.5 · 48 votes · 148 reads
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Nature
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
3.8 · 9 votes · 102 reads
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Defects
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
5.0 · 42 votes · 15 reads
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Virtues
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
3.1 · 36 votes · 53 reads
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Society
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
3.3 · 44 votes · 136 reads
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Various
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
5.0 · 13 votes · 153 reads
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Society
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
3.3 · 20 votes · 126 reads
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Various
Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.
4.3 · 36 votes · 113 reads
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Feelings
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
4.3 · 38 votes · 138 reads
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Various
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within
3.3 · 15 votes · 82 reads
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Various
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
4.7 · 18 votes · 101 reads
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Thought and Reason
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
4.3 · 57 votes · 123 reads
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Various
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
3.1 · 36 votes · 122 reads
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Art and Culture
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
5.0 · 30 votes · 128 reads
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Various
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
3.0 · 19 votes · 179 reads
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Virtues
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wro
3.6 · 35 votes · 143 reads
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Various
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
3.3 · 14 votes · 139 reads
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Thought and Reason
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
4.4 · 41 votes · 42 reads
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Virtues
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
4.2 · 22 votes · 64 reads
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Nature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
4.1 · 12 votes · 143 reads
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Various
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
4.3 · 35 votes · 70 reads
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Various
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
4.6 · 58 votes · 64 reads
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Art and Culture
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
3.9 · 39 votes · 137 reads
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Feelings
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
4.6 · 42 votes · 74 reads
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Thought and Reason
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
3.5 · 57 votes · 160 reads
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Virtues
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
4.8 · 44 votes · 3 reads
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Feelings
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
3.7 · 46 votes · 107 reads
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Thought and Reason
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that add
4.9 · 33 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
4.3 · 10 votes · 116 reads
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Society
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
4.9 · 45 votes · 10 reads
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Thought and Reason
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
4.7 · 10 votes · 85 reads
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Society
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
3.3 · 13 votes · 198 reads
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