No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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