Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTIf you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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