The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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