An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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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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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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