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.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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