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.
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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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