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George Eliot Quotes

«There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.»
«There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.»
«The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.»
«Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.»
«Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.»
«It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.»
«Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.»
«[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . .»
«A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.»
«Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.»