I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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 we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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