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54f2165
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Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing.
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individual
introvert
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George Eliot |
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9f8514e
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Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to faint meat, Named idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flattered, And froth with mean self-lauding lies. Serve warm: the vessels you must choose To keep it in are dead men's shoes.
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George Eliot |
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39c619d
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Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
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writing
work
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George Eliot |
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197645b
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The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge.
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gods-love
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George Eliot |
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82826da
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Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
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wisdom
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George Eliot |
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e9183f4
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
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George Eliot |
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74927da
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I suppose it's the name: there's a deal in the name of a tune.
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names
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George Eliot |
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56e633b
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She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread.
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George Eliot |
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0599ea4
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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as ..
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relationships
lifestyle
humility
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George Eliot |
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dbefdfa
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For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross,is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toi..
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George Eliot |
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c430e1f
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Poor Maggie sat down again, with the music all chased out of her soul, and the seven small demons all in again.
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George Eliot |
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a95a76a
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Don't suppose that I think you are right, Tom, or that I bow to your will. I despise the feelings you have shown in speaking to Philip - I detest your insulting unmanly allusions to his deformity. You have been reproaching people all your life - you have always been sure you yourself are right: it is because you have not a mind large enough to see that there is anything better than your own conduct and your own petty aims. [...] I don't wan..
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George Eliot |
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e92dc84
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Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear alt..
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George Eliot |
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cccf533
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There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.
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George Eliot |
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1d3f156
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What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
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virtue
riddle
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George Eliot |
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4b9db60
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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fear
distraction
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George Eliot |
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5cda8ac
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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
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George Eliot |
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fa5f41c
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But now, since they had been in Rome, with all the depths of her emotion roused to tumultuous activity, and with life made a new problem by new elements, she had been becoming more and more aware, with a certain terror, that her mind was continually sliding into inward fits of anger and repulsion, or else into forlorn weariness.
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George Eliot |
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e6e669b
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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George Eliot |
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816ba43
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Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
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George Eliot |
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The pride and obstinacy of millers and other insignificant people, whom you pass unnoticingly on the road every day, have their tragedy too; but it is of that unwept, hidden sort that goes on from generation to generation, and leaves no record -- such tragedy, perhaps, as lies in the conflicts of young souls, hungry for joy, under a lot made suddenly hard to them, under the dreariness of a home where the morning brings no promise with it, a..
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George Eliot |
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fc562a4
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:
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George Eliot |
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ee1decf
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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
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George Eliot |
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e665ab7
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Maggie in her crude form, with her hair down her back, and altogether in a state of dubious promise, was a most undesirable niece; but now she was capable of being at once ornamental and useful.
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George Eliot |
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9cfaf1e
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We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions--how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
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George Eliot |
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c77b399
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Excuse me there. If you go upon arguments, they are never wanting, when a man has no constancy of mind. My father never changed, and he preached plain moral sermons without arguments, and was a good man--few better. When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book. That's my opinion, and I think anybody's stomach will bear me out.
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George Eliot |
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f0c1f2b
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Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.
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George Eliot |
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What has that to do with Miss Brooke's marrying him? She does not do it for my amusement.' 'He has got no good red blood in his body,' said Sir James. 'No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses,' said Mrs Cadwallader.
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George Eliot |
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af65772
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But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me...That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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George Eliot |
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05957fb
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When a man had married into a family where there was a whole litter of women, he might have plenty to put up with if he chose. But Mr. Tulliver did not choose.
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George Eliot |
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bdedffe
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On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.
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friendship
love
intimacy
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George Eliot |
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7c4d647
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We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .
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image
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George Eliot |
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76e1b51
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I am not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary superlative existed, could escape these unfavourable reflections of himself in various small mirrors; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin.
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George Eliot |
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f6776c4
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Miss Brooke's large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking.
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George Eliot |
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c70e232
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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George Eliot |
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a464d47
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Yes," said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative."
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George Eliot |
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3a8eb7d
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Ay, ay; you want to coax me into thinking him a fine match." "No, indeed, father. I don't love him because he is a fine match." "What for, then?" "Oh, dear, because I have always loved him. I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband."
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George Eliot |
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932ca16
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Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?
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George Eliot |
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242d624
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When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.... The same sort of temptation befell the Christian Carnivora who formed Peter Featherstone's funeral procession; most of them having their minds bent on a limited store which each..
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George Eliot |
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e1df07f
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . . .
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George Eliot |
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bc4a082
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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
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wholeness
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George Eliot |
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eda4d50
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we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.
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George Eliot |
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3d9e029
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When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. Mr. Casaubon, on the contrary, stood rayless.
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humor
pity
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George Eliot |
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543313d
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What have you been doing lately?' 'I? Oh, minding the house-pouring out syrup-pretending to be amiable and contented-learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.
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George Eliot |