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.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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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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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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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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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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