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George Eliot Quotes

«Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Duty | Keywords: apt, conscientious
«Hear Everything and judge for yourself»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Hearing, Judgement
«For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.»
«The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.»
«Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: determine
«If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Words | Keywords: striking
«We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: folks
«Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.»
«I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: conceited
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»

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