Quotes by Geraldine Jewsbury - Page 1

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Death
Facts
Lasts
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Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.
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Fire
Idols
Love Is
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There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
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Wisdom
History
Events
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People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.
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Fancy
Mistake
People
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
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Crime
Folly
Reproach
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Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
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Animal
Fiction
Giraffe
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Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Religion
Believe
Littles
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society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
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Long
People
Suffering
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men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Men
Character
Life Is
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Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Accomplishment
Expectations
Wish
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I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Mind
Wish
Writing
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But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Selfish
Special
Trying
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What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!
Geraldine Jewsbury / Novelist
Doors
Evil
Years
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