Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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