Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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