We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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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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