The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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