It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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