The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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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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