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Those old stories of visions ...

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

To the old, sorrow is sorrow;...

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

The human soul is hospitable,...

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

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...there's never a garden in ...

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I think I am quite wicked wit...

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

One has to spend so many year...

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

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A fool or idiot is one who ex...

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

The idea of duty--that recogn...

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

If we need a true conception ...

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I used to come from the villa...

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

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The greatest benefit we owe t...

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

When we are young we think ou...

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

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The floods of nonsense printe...

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

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Many an inherited sorrow that...

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

The worst of misery Is when a...

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

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What deep and worthy love is ...

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

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The best part of a woman's lo...

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

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Man may content himself with ...

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

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O may I join the choir invisi...

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

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A fine lady is a squirrel-hea...

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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