Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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