Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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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.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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 troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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