If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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