After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOT
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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 is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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