It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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