Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Consequences are unpitying.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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