The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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