I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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