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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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