The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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