I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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