Consequences are unpitying.
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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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 never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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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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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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