Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to 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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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