I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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