Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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