Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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