If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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