I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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 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 surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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