It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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