All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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