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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Belief
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accepting, affirmations, denying, unbelief
«She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.»
«Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.»
«Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Habit
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beneficent, calmly, enables, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, respectfully, routine, silly
«And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.»
«One must be poor to know the luxury of giving»
«In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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beaming, beams, fondness, his mother, knee, maternal, protecting, shed, strain, tenderness
«A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Hope
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annihilate, annihilates, hopes, shadow, sunbeams, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«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.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Feelings,
Happiness,
Pleasure
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caring, come by, Rest of the world, very much
«That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.»
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