Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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