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George Eliot Quotes
«Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.»
«There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
blight, blighted, blights, cloudy, despondency, egoism, hardly a
«The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.»
«In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
disconnect, disconnected, limpness, schoolroom, schoolrooms, unexplained
«There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.»
«. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.»
«There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
an explanation, explanation, gust, gusts, storms, unmapped
«It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade»