It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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