I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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