There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTA friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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