Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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