Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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