Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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