But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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