Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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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.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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