If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars 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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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