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.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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