After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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