Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTIn 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.
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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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