The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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