Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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