To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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