Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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