“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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