The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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It 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.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Human 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.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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