All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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