Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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