It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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 a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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