These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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 will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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