Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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