If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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