After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOT“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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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