To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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