Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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