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"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Perspective
"Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Portraits
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
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George Eliot
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Professions and Professionals
"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Purpose
"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Reality
"Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Sarcasm
"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Silence
"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Sympathy
"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Thoughts and Thinking
"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Wit
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