I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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