We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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