The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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 is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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