I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTShe 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.
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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A good horse makes short miles.
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What 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.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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