The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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