I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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