People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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 as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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