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 ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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