We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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