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 ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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“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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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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