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.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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