There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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 strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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