What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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