It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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