Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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