Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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