A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Life 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.
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