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 ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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