“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“In every parting there is an image of death.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: men
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