Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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