I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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