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There are 95 quotes for the author George Eliot

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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

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

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

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