If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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