What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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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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