Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is har

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on Englands account. – Henry Lawson

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He that is not jealous is not in love. – St. Augustine

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