I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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