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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT

Break Desirer Future Past Tie
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOT

Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT

Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand

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