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Death is the king of this world: 'tis his park Where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain Are music for his banquet
By George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
By George Eliot
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.
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When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the b...
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What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence....
By George Eliot
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you fee...
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine—something like being blind, while people talk of...
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Expenditure—like ugliness and errors—becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide dif...
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...Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs).
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... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
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... the only way in which Mr. Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the right time was to be well plied with them ti...
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... farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
By George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
By George Eliot
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.
By George Eliot
That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world
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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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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
By George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
By George Eliot
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
By George Eliot
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience
By George Eliot