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.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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