It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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