Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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