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23e434b
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
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fallacy
thinking
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George Eliot |
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cebab22
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer--committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of su..
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silence
suffering
sorrow
sadness
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George Eliot |
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673b4de
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When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.
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George Eliot |
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6b3867b
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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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George Eliot |
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72990bb
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She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it.
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passion
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George Eliot |
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da053d5
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Love once, love always
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love
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George Eliot |
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03fca5d
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
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George Eliot |
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e29c030
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
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George Eliot |
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34428ca
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but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
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George Eliot |
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866e400
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past--sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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depression
inertia
insomnia
inaction
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George Eliot |
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9fc3c2d
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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George Eliot |
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6b66d57
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He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.
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George Eliot |
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fc634ac
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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education
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George Eliot |
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cea08c0
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A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
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self-discipline
procrastination
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George Eliot |
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13bdece
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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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passion
inspiration
knowledge
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George Eliot |
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4f4af64
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She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She wa..
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view
window
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George Eliot |
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5447ed4
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people -- amongst whom your life is passed -- that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire -- for whom you should cherish all possible hopes,..
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George Eliot |
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e78fac9
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So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
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George Eliot |
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3cc8929
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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George Eliot |
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92c460b
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But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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George Eliot |
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6fbad5c
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There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
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George Eliot |
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995e43e
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While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity
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George Eliot |
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4fc0a35
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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George Eliot |
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6cdaeff
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It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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George Eliot |
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d87f1e6
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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distraction
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George Eliot |
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41cee7d
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Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
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George Eliot |
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2d9314d
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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
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prophecy
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George Eliot |
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42eed31
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What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
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George Eliot |
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a10e04f
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
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George Eliot |
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beb9b42
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There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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George Eliot |
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caa7c3a
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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George Eliot |
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f3cabfe
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No retrospect will take us to the true beginning
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George Eliot |
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33b3c1e
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Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life ..
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travel
living-abroad
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George Eliot |
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24067ff
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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 altogether the same.
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marriage
relationships
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George Eliot |
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df17b71
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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
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physician
humility
psychology
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George Eliot |
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162e12d
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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, t..
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George Eliot |
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But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief. "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and can not do what we would, we are part of the divine struggle against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower."
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middlemarch
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George Eliot |
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7cd3e4f
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Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.
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George Eliot |
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b59ed63
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It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
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George Eliot |
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5c1d8b3
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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George Eliot |
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1fa58eb
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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 to..
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George Eliot |
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442f1f0
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Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
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work
love
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George Eliot |
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947100f
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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prudence
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George Eliot |
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d4220fb
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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
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George Eliot |