Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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