Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOTIf you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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