There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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