The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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