I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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