Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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