The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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