Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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