Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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