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There's good chances and bad ...

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

That golden sky, which was th...

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

The vainest woman is never th...

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I trust you as holy men trust...

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

How impossible it is for stro...

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

The wit of a family is usuall...

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Opinions: men's thoughts abou...

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I think cheerfulness is a for...

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

My books don't seem to belong...

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... it is because sympathy is...

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

even those who call themselve...

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

To think of the part one litt...

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Perhaps the wind Wails so in ...

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

An ingenious web of probabili...

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

A proud heart and a lofty mou...

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

When we are dead : it is the ...

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I wish always to be quoted as...

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

the mysterious complexity of ...

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I love words; they are the qu...

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

A woman's rank Lies in the fu...

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

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