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Famous George Eliot Quotes
“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.”
“Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
“As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.”
“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.”
“I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
“Effective magic is transcendent nature.”
“Time, like money, is measured by our needs.”
“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.”
“I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.”
“The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.”
“Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.”
“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!”
“These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.”
“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.”
“Things are achieved when they are well begun.”
“The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.”
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.”
“The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.”
“It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.”