I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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