There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Human 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.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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