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  1. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long-recognisable deed.
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  3. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
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  4. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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  5. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
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  6. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly."
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  7. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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  8. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief."That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and can not do what we would, we are part of the divine struggle against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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  9. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
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  10. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
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  11. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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  12. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.''He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
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