In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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