Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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