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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.George Eliot
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Those who trust us educate us.George Eliot
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I told you from the beginning–as soon as I could– I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda turned his ear only. Her face afflicted him too much. "I felt a hatred in me that was always working like an evil spirit–contriving things. Everything I could do to free myself came into my mind; and it got worse–all things got worse. That is why I asked you to come to me in town. I thought then I would tell you the worst about myself. I tried. But I could not tell everything.George Eliot
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Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.George Eliot
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.George Eliot
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.George Eliot
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He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.George Eliot
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.George Eliot
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.George Eliot