Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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