The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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