What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTWhat 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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