No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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