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What makes like dreary is the want of motive.


George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
T.S. ELIOT All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, ...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) In every parting there is an image of death.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment th...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through end...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was servi...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the mo...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaf...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrive...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fo...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secre...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluc...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work Of many thousand men.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it prove...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; ...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) To be great is to be misunderstood.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hea...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving act...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's fun...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to pet...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hu...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Dawn Wells, who is Mary-Ann, has a cookbook out, which is really a lot of fun. It's got thirteen coc...
BOB DENVER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign
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"He Counts Their Tears" ...
MARY ANN D'ALTO Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and ...
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JULIE ORRINGER Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that tre...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands jus...
BRIAN GLASS Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
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DARREN DOPP Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for...
JOHN OWEN And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
JOHN OWEN Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
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GEORGE ELIOT A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly r...
GEORGE ELIOT A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love o...
GEORGE ELIOT Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make th...
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...
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