Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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