Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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