Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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