To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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.
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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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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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