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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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