Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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