Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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