Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Quote by George Eliot

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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.