Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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