What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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“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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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