Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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 love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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