We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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