To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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