Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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