… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOT
If 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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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