Tag: George Eliot
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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.
George Eliot
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot