In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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