These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTWe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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