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.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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