I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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