The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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