Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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