The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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