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.
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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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