Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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