Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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