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.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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