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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
-- George Eliot

#Spiritual #Nature #True Friend
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
-- George Eliot

#Wisdom #Travel #Adventure
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
-- George Eliot

#Teacher #Responsibility #Power
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
-- George Eliot

#Love #Inspirational #Friendship
“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”
-- George Eliot

#Time #Memories #Men
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Rain #Flower
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sympathy
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
-- George Eliot

#Beautiful #Witty #Giving Up
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
-- George Eliot

#Childhood #Earth #Wells
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
-- George Eliot

#Love #Life #Valentines Day
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
-- George Eliot

#Life #Motivation #Literature
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”
-- George Eliot

#Friendship #Happiness #Smile
“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”
-- George Eliot

#Memories #Butterfly #Expectations
“To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Men #Mind
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
-- George Eliot

#Keys #Mystery #Wonder
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
-- George Eliot

#Friendship #Cute Friendship #Agreement
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
-- George Eliot

#Sad #Grief #Wrestling
“It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Flower #Woods
“The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.”
-- George Eliot

#Memories #Imagination
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
-- George Eliot

#Luxury #Giving #Charity
“ImaginationÂ is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.”
-- George Eliot

#Dog #Wall #Imagination
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
-- George Eliot

#Life #Death #Kings
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
-- George Eliot

#Women #Monsters #Literature
“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
-- George Eliot

#Ignorance #Common #Hours
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Motivational #Work
“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”
-- George Eliot

#Dirty #Gossip #Taste
“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?”
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Names #Noble
“Consequences are unpitying.”
-- George Eliot

#Consequence
“We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.”
-- George Eliot

#People #Want #Feels

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