The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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