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«Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.»
«There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.»
«The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.»
«The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.»
«It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
devastation, haggard, The Seeds, trivialities, triviality
«It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.»
«What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?»
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