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.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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