I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Consequences are unpitying.
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