I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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