I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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