George Eliot

George Eliot

"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
George Eliot
"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
George Eliot
"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself."
George Eliot
"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
George Eliot
"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
George Eliot
"Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through."
George Eliot
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
George Eliot
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
George Eliot
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
George Eliot
"Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
George Eliot
"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart."
George Eliot
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
George Eliot
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
George Eliot
"The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day."
George Eliot
"Time like money is measured by our needs."
George Eliot
"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
George Eliot
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them."
George Eliot
"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."
George Eliot
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust."
George Eliot
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