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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot First 586
Sane people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large one might know and avoid them. George Eliot Sanity 234
Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Animals 176
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. George Eliot Patronize 174
Sane people did what their neighbours did so that if any lunatics were at large one might know and avoid them. George Eliot Humorous 172
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. George Eliot Tolerance 137
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. George Eliot Gossip 134
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot Silence 124
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. George Eliot Integrity 114
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. George Eliot Boasting 112
Those who trust us educate us. George Eliot Education 108
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 Doubt 105
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot Prophecy 105
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot Smile 105
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. George Eliot Purpose 104
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. George Eliot Privacy 100
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot Travel 100
Breed is stronger than pasture. George Eliot Ancestry 96
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg... George Eliot Silence 95
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot Language 95
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. George Eliot Identity 93
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot Perspective 91
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot Women 91
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. George Eliot Understanding 90
Consequences are unpitying. George Eliot Consequences 90
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. George Eliot Youth 90
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot Growth 89
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. George Eliot Paradox 89
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. George Eliot Sincerity 88
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot Work 88
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. George Eliot Fact 87
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot Gardening 87
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. George Eliot Obscurity 86
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. George Eliot Conscience 85
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot Family 85
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot Expectation 85
Ive always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. George Eliot Poverty 85
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music. George Eliot Feelings 85
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. George Eliot Passion 85
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 Love 85
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means—one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. George Eliot Mistakes 85
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. George Eliot Charity 84
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. George Eliot Music 83
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot Silence 83
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. George Eliot Vanity 82
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. George Eliot Thought 82
Blameless people are always the most exasperating. George Eliot Society 82
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. George Eliot Actions 81
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot Death 81
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 Science 81

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