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.
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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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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