Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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