We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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