There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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