I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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