Quote by George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been ma

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

Other quotes by George Eliot

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

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Curiosity
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

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Travel

Aviation – and space travel, in particular – have always been especially captivating. – Felix Baumgartner

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Travel

I think its important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think its great I get to travel the world with my daughter. – Salma Hayek

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Travel

You cannot travel within and stand still without. – James Lane Allen

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Travel

Random Quotes

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. – Chen Shui-bian

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positive

It’s Not All About You…Stay in the Game. Taking myself lightly means trading my self-absorption for connecting with others…it is really not all about you! One of our workshop participants relates to this principle in this way: Don’t make yourself more important than the situation. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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Selfishness

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou – Akhenaton

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Character

The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. – Lynn Barber

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Interviews