It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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 desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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 is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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