One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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