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.
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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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