What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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