Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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