There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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