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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.»
«Hear Everything and judge for yourself»
«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.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, faithfully, might-have-been, owing, partly, tombs
«Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.»
«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.»
«We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.»
«Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them»
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Soul
| Keywords:
conflicting opinions, contradictory, hospitable, impartiality, sentiments
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