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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
In every parting there is an image of death.
GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
Effective magic is transcendent nature.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
Even success needs its consolations.
GEORGE ELIOT, letter to J. W. Cross, Jun. 3, 1876
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.
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