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So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

Life’s Glide, River To Sea, Uncertain Journey, Life, Sea, Journey

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t

George Eliot’s Quotes On Topics

More George Eliot Quotes

“One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.”

New Person, Begin Things, Better Man, Person, Begin, Better

“When you’ve been used to doing things, and they’ve been taken away from you, it’s as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.”

Lost Actions, Hand’s Limitation, Removed Comforts, Actions, Limitation, Comforts

“Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.”

Firm Decisions, Personal Integrity, Moral Strength, Inner Resolve, Personal Conviction, Unwavering Belief

“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”

Regret, Change, Growth, Redemption, Compassion, Life

“It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.”

Weather And Poetry, Creativity Challenges, Seasonal Inspiration, Poetry, Weather, Inspiration

“Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there’s no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.”

Daily Troubles, Footwear Woes, Practical Challenges, Boots, Shoes, Trouble

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

Comfort, Purpose, Life, Altruism, Change, Humanity

“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”

Braying Ass, Shakes Stars, Good While, Stars, Bray, While

“Souls live on in perpetual echoes.”

Perpetual Echoes, Living Souls, Eternal Presence, Souls, Echoes, Presence

“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.”

Love’s Deception, Conscious Cheating, Childlike Games, Love, Deception, Assurance

“All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.”

Passion Strength, Outlet Energy, Emotional Power, Passion, Strength, Energy

“Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.”

True Love, Love’s Rewards, Everlasting Love, Eternal Commitment, Deep Affection, True Devotion

“The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.”

Human Nature, Dogmatic Perversions, Ultimate Triumph, Nature, Triumph, Tendency

“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”

Expectations, Foolishness, Impossible Hopes, Expectations, Fool, Hope

“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”

Perfect Freedom, Happiness Union, Intense Degree, Freedom, Happiness, Union

“Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.”

Magnified Drop, Semicolons Humor, Parentheses View, Drop, Humor, View

“Where Jack isn’t safe, Tom’s in danger.”

Safety, Danger, Mutual Protection, Safety, Danger, Protection

“The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.”

Rotten Soul, Poisonous Thoughts, Hidden Origins, Soul, Poison, Origins

“I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”

Flutter Ways, Fly None, Aimless Journey, Flutter, Fly, Journey

“A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.”

Human Life, Artistic Vision, Moral Sentiment, Life, Art, Sentiment