Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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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.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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