It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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