Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – 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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTLife 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.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTAny 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.
GEORGE ELIOT