One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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