George Eliot

(36 votes)   People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

George Eliot
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(515 votes)   Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(454 votes)   Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(293 votes)   Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(283 votes)   But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(269 votes)   To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(209 votes)   Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(208 votes)   I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(200 votes)   The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(185 votes)   Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(184 votes)   Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(173 votes)   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.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(172 votes)   There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

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1819-1880, British Novelist

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(170 votes)   How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(169 votes)   That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

George Eliot

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