Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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