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Future Quotes by George Eliot
- Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
- We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent…
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- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson