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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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