She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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 is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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