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.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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