Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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