Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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