If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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