It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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