All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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 could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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