Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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