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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion."

Lying Christian Attitude
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

Heart Real Lying
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow."

Men Lying Passion
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Lying

"We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."

Lying Hands Humility
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness."

Lying Beauty Curves
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."

Lying Imagination Clouds
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears."

Self Lying Mistake
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom."

Lying Wise Reflection
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy."

Men Children Lying
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."

Lying Pain Wall
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Lying

"Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?"

Art Lying What If
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Lying

"When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'."

Men Lying Blessing
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"Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie."

Men Heart Lying
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