Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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 is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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