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.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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