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.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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