“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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