There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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