Tag: George Eliot
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
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A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot