We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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