There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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