there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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“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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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