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.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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 must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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