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George Eliot: top 300 quotes
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Time (n.) is like money, measured by our needs.
Language's (n.) finest specimens are mostly made up of simple unimposing words..
Metaphor (n.) is a way of thinking. One gets a very different result by changing the metaphor.
Opportunity (n.) is nothing to a man who can't use it.
Resolve (n.) will melt no rocks, but it can scale them.
Love (n.) , at its highest flood, rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
Love (n.) has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
Life (n.) is about nothing other than to try to make life less difficult for each other..
Life (n.) is like a game of whist. I don’t enjoy the game much : but I like to E lay my cards well, and see what will a the end of it.
Marriage (n.) must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Death (n.) is the king of this world, a world in which he breeds life to feed himself, and in which cries of pain provide the music for his banquet.
Death (n.) is not a leap, it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
Death (n.) is the only physician, the Bhadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.