I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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