What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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