Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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