Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOTJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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