I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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