Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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