Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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 must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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