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.
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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“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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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