Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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