I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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