Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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“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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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