Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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