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George Eliot Quotes
«For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.»
«The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, faithfully, might-have-been, owing, partly, tombs
«If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.»
«Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them»
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Soul
| Keywords:
conflicting opinions, contradictory, hospitable, impartiality, sentiments