After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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