… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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