Tag: George Eliot
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot