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.
GEORGE ELIOT
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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 destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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