What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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