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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Category: Anger Author: George Eliot
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Category: Animals and Pets Author: George Eliot
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Category: Autumn Author: George Eliot
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
Category: Beauty Author: George Eliot
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
Category: Childhood Author: George Eliot
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Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
Category: Death Author: George Eliot
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Category: Dogs Author: George Eliot
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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Category: Family Author: George Eliot
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It is never too late to be who you might have been.
Category: Goals Author: George Eliot
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Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
Category: Grammar Author: George Eliot
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
Category: Grief Author: George Eliot
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: George Eliot
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Category: Humility Author: George Eliot
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Perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
Category: Life Author: George Eliot
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.
Category: Live Now Author: George Eliot
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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger.
Category: Marriage Author: George Eliot
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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.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: George Eliot
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O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
Category: Night Author: George Eliot
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
Category: Nostalgia Author: George Eliot Source: The Mill on the Floss
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Category: School Author: George Eliot
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