Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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