If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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 a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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