No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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