Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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