Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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