I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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