There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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 thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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