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 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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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