Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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