Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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 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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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