Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Quote by George Eliot

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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

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.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

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.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...