I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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