There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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