Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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