Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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