I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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