There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Character 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.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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