It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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