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  1. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
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  2. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.
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  3. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time-or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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  4. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
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  5. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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  6. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
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  7. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's
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  8. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
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  9. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression to silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
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  10. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
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  11. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
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  12. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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