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.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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