What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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