A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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