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 ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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