Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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