The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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