It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Its never too late to be who you might have been - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . . - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Those who trust us educate us. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . - George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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