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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.


George Eliot

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GEORGE ELIOT Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
GEORGE ELIOT It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...
GEORGE ELIOT