Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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