To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTI have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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 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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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