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.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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