Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There 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.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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