In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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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 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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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“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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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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