Quote by George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason

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

Other quotes by George Eliot

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot

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Death
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. – Auguste Rodin

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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. – Sigmund Freud

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. – James Whitcomb Riley

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine

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When I was a child I didnt care about getting an education, and I didnt finish high school. – Mary J. Blige

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Comedy may be big business but it isnt pretty. – Steve Martin

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. – Aristotle

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