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.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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