A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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