Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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