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.
GEORGE ELIOTIn travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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