It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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 flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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