To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Quote by George Eliot

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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of...

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...