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.
GEORGE ELIOTA good horse makes short miles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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