Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTI don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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 strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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