George Eliot

George Eliot

"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
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"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
George Eliot
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
George Eliot
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
George Eliot
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
George Eliot
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
George Eliot
"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
George Eliot
"Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
George Eliot
"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
George Eliot
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
George Eliot
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot
"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
George Eliot
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
George Eliot
"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."
George Eliot
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
George Eliot
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
George Eliot
"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."
George Eliot
"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
George Eliot
"In every parting there is an image of death."
George Eliot
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