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.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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