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 ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Consequences are unpitying.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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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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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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