Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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What 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.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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