It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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