A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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