What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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.
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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.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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