British - Author | November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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