It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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