It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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