The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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