These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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