Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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