Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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