We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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