The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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