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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.


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GEORGE ELIOT There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength ...
GEORGE ELIOT To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends...
GEORGE ELIOT How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living compan...
GEORGE ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
GEORGE ELIOT The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the ...
GEORGE ELIOT What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great cal...
GEORGE ELIOT The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and wome...
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
GEORGE ELIOT Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own dep...
GEORGE ELIOT Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human ...
GEORGE ELIOT The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard ev...
GEORGE ELIOT Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-disconte...
GEORGE ELIOT One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
GEORGE ELIOT When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation a...
GEORGE ELIOT Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
GEORGE ELIOT The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...
GEORGE ELIOT Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fol...
GEORGE ELIOT There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...
GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoi...
GEORGE ELIOT The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, wh...
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w...
GEORGE ELIOT For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a wil...
GEORGE ELIOT There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli...
GEORGE ELIOT The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
GEORGE ELIOT But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, a...
EDEN ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT

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