It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The 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.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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