We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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