Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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 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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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