Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Character 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.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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