To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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