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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . .»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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