The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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