… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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