What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTShe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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