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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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