The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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