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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.
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
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
By George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
By George Eliot
Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
By George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
By George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
By George Eliot
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives
By George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
By George Eliot
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
By George Eliot
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
By George Eliot
The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
By George Eliot
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
By George Eliot
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
By George Eliot
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
By George Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
By George Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
By George Eliot