All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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