It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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