I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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