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 ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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