I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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