Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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