It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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