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.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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