We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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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 never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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