Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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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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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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