Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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