Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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