Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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