Each position has its corresponding duties.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

George Eliot

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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

George Eliot

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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

George Eliot

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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

George Eliot

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I protest against any absolute conclusion.

George Eliot

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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

George Eliot

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A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.

George Eliot

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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

George Eliot


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