What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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