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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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