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 ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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