The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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