It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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 strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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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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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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