Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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 desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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 pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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