A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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