These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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