Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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