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.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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