It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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 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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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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