Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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