It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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