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.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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