I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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 a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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