George Eliot Quote Explained: Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

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The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

- George Eliot

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Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

- George Eliot

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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

- George Eliot

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That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

- George Eliot

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

- George Eliot

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Skepticism

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

- George Eliot

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It’s no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

- George Eliot

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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

It’s no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

I don’t want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

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