There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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