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“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
— George Eliot
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
— George Eliot
“He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.”
— George Eliot
“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
— George Eliot
“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
— George Eliot
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
— George Eliot
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
— George Eliot
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
— George Eliot
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
— George Eliot
“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
— George Eliot
“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
— George Eliot
“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.”
— George Eliot
“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
— George Eliot
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
— George Eliot
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
— George Eliot
“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
— George Eliot
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
— George Eliot
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
— George Eliot
“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
— George Eliot
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
— George Eliot
“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
— George Eliot
“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”
— George Eliot
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
— George Eliot
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
— George Eliot
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
— George Eliot
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
— George Eliot
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
— George Eliot
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
— George Eliot
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
— George Eliot
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