Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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 never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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