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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Mary Anne Evans
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
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It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
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Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
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It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
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It is very difficult to be learned it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
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Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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