It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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