Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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there 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.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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