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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Trouble's made us kin.
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Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
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That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
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But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
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Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days but in everything else what changes!
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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 opinion.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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