The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Quotes from The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot
1819–1880 England
33 quotes
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision
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Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.