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George Eliot


British
November 22, 1819
Author
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Consequences are unpitying.


George Eliot
Tags: Consequences
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.


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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!


George Eliot
Tags: Know Must Poor
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.


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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.


George Eliot
Tags: Knowledge Up Down
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.


George Eliot
Tags: Good He Down
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.


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Tags: Which Look Mind
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.


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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.


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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.


George Eliot
Tags: Life Been Which
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Tags: Great Death Our
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.


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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.


George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Tags: Get Our Things
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
Tags: Good Failure Than
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
Tags: Think Out Life
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
Tags: Love Make Us
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.


George Eliot
Tags: Make He Man
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
Tags: Would Were May
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot
Tags: God Our Them
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
Tags: Best Our Than
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
Tags: You Always Them
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
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
Tags: Never Look Same
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
Tags: You Your Them
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
Tags: Faith Up Will