What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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