Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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