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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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