Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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