Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Character 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.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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 darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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