In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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 is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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