Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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