… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTIf 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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