After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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