Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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