Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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