Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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