Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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