These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTthere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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