Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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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.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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