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For character too is a process...

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... the true seeing is within;...

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I don't feel sure about doing ...

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... we all know the wag's defi...

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... indefinite visions of ambi...

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... the majority of us scarcel...

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... goodness is of a modest na...

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... we are most of us brought ...

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... it is one thing to like de...

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... scepticismcan never be tho...

... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, h...

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

... in no part of the world is...

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Fine art, poetry, that kind of...

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...

George Eliot 1236 quotes

What is opportunity to the man...

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Our instructed vagrancy, which...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

It is only a poor sort of happ...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

To have suffered much is like ...

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Take your sensibility and use ...

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

George Eliot 1236 quotes

I think I dislike what I don't...

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

Boots and shoes are the greate...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

George Eliot 1236 quotes

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