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George Eliot Quotes
«People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.»
«The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.»
«Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .»
«Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.»
«. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.»
«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.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.»
«Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.»