In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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