In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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