Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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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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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’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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