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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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