We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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