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.
GEORGE ELIOTLove 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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