Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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