Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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When 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.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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