Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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