Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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