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.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A good horse makes short miles.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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