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 ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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