A good horse makes short miles.
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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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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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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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