Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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