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The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible dramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities against them.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
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I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes...
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There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others.
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Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them.
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These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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The mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.
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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, — when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.
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If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
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If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent — like a carrier pigeon.
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'Character' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—'character is destiny.'
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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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But then the need of being loved, the strongest need … in poor Maggie's nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.
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Born:
November 22, 1819
Died:
December 22, 1880
(aged 61)
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