It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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