To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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