It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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