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.
GEORGE ELIOTIn travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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“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.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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