Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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 golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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