Tag: George Eliot
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot
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All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot
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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Eliot
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In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot