Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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