Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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