Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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