Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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