We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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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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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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