An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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