I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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