Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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