It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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