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 ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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