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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The 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.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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