… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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