Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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