Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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 never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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