What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTHuman 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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