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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
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There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
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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.
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
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The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
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