Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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