Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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