In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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