| 57 Famous Quotes by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience
that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VI, ch. X)
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“Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no
memories of outlived sorrow.”
Childhood Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. IX)
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“The dew-bead
Gem of earth and sky begotten.”
Dew Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, song)
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“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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“All our ignorance brings us closer to death.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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“The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.”
Misery Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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“Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and
shrank.”
Twilight Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. II)
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