Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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