There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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