There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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