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 ELIOTIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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