We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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