Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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