If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOTIn travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
More George Eliot Quotes
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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