No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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.
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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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