But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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