The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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