… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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