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.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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