We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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