Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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