It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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“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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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