One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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