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George Eliot Quotes

«But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: eagerness, unfed
«When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are»
«Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Kindness | Keywords: unkindness
«Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: afar, penitence, returning
«Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.»
«Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: beforehand
«The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: hugging
«We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.»
«Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.»
«We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.»

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