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.
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 sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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