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.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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