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.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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