Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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