We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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