I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTHuman feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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