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.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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