George Eliot

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"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."	Failure, Writing
"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."	Age, Friends, Love
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."	Generosity, Intelligence, Men
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."	Friends
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important."	Desires, Wants
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."	Miscellaneous
"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still."	Education, School, Teaching
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."	Choice, Lies, Men
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."	Age, Duty, Love
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."	Death, Lies, Men
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."	Miscellaneous
"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare."	Lies, Men, Writing
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."	Art, Love, Saying Goodbye
"To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."	Art, Death, Life
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."	Anger
"Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty."	Beauty
"Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again."	Love, Death
"What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories."	Family
"That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger."	Marriage
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