Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot
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  2. A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right. - Sophie Kinsella

  3. God is a witness to anything done in secret. - Lailah Gifty

  4. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out... - R.J. Palacio

  5. Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. - Mark Buchanan

More Quotes By George Eliot
  1. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and...

  2. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each...

  3. Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her...

  4. Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  5. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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