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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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