All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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 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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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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