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George Eliot

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

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"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"

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"Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling."

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"She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes."

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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."

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"No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!"

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"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."

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"Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise."

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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
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"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
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