It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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