All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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