A good horse makes short miles.
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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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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That 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.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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