People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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