Decide on what you think is right, and stick to 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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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