If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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