There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
More George Eliot Quotes
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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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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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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