If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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