It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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