Tag: George Eliot
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And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
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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.
George Eliot
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
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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
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot