No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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